Veni, Vidi, Scripsi

September in Review

Well, one thing I never quite got around to doing this month was some sort of final, post-Blaugust wrap up. Of course, Belghast has already summed the whole thing up, listed everybody out, and handed out awards. I got the right to display this logo.

Made it all the way, second year running

I was also going to collect up and link to everybody else’s summary to merge it all into some sort of mega meta summary or some such… and then my wife said it was time for dinner and I forgot about the whole thing until I found it in my Drafts folder yesterday along with something I was writing for the NBI… back in 2014 judging from the date… and that idea I had for picking the most negatively influential games I have played. Anyway, these are the links I collected before I got distracted:

In LOTRO I also ran into somebody who was looking for a social environment similar to old EverQuest. I wonder if he ended up on Fippy Darkpaw which, for a short time, had all the best aspects of early EverQuest.

New Linking Blogs

The following blogs have linked this site in their blogroll, for which they have my thanks.

an ancient raft
[Like this one? I think that is an ArcheAge screen shot.]

эверквест Интор
[The EverQuest II Russian server lives I guess]

Diablo III

I spent some time playing this, far more time than I spent playing EQII, so swapped this in for the other on the side bar list of games I am playing. It is fun, immersive, and I remain impressed with how good it looks every time I play. It just isn’t a game that sparks much blogging interest in me. Weeee, I followed the same linear path as everybody else and got some interesting somewhat randomized loot.

EVE Online

Just enough happened in New Eden to make me feel like I did something without me burning a lot of hours in the game. A short deployment, a couple of fun roams, a couple of homeland defense ops, and here we are done with the month. It wasn’t as interesting as a good war, but it was enjoyable.

EverQuest II

Post-cataclysmic Norrath fell off the end of the list. I can only really play three ongoing video games at a time, and as noted above, Diablo III bumped EQII into the oblivion of fourth place. A pity, as I was enjoying a bit of nostalgia on the Stormhold server… just not enough to actually play I guess. Time to cancel that subscription.

Minecraft

Again this month, the game that eats up most of my gaming free time is Minecraft. The game is definitely better with a few people playing in the world, so I am glad we have a hosted server so that the five regulars can play. But with the bump in price due to changing hosts, I have again started thinking about the whole renting vs. owning calculation. Expect a post again about that I suppose.

Coming Up

It is October and suddenly the end of the year looms as we rush towards Halloween and the blur of the holiday season that will inevitably spit us out at the far end in the bleak landscape of January.

And so much is coming up. Daybreak is supposed to spill the beans on the EQ and EQII expansions… well, tomorrow… with an official reveal. The GW2 expansion Heart of Thorns is coming out later this month. SWTOR and UItima Online also have expansions slated for this month. People will be passing judgement on the WildStar free to play conversion. There is EVE Vegas, which signs indicate I may very well attend, and the reveals that CCP will have there. And then there will be the run up to BlizzCon. While that is actually in the first week of November, I am sure people will begin to speculate about what we might see there.

Which is all good because, as noted, I am not at all inspired to write about Diablo III, no matter how enjoyable it is, EVE Online content can rarely be predicted in advance, and I am not sure I have a lot to say about Minecraft at the moment besides server logistics and how I built yet another crude structure or fell off of some high place yet again.

So time to start thinking about the inevitable “hopes and expectations” post about BlizzCon I guess. It is either that or take up the offer I got in email earlier to go review Aeria Games’ upcoming title Dragomon Hunter…. which would mean trying yet again to fit four games into a three game time budget. Oh well, I am going to bet that somebody Massively OP has that game covered already.

Please complain about the really really really bad ‘redesigned’ editor mode they introduced … uh … 2? years ago? I hateses it. It makes everything *I* need to do for my blog much harder, but I guess that’s what I get for not microblogging or photoblogging or whatever it is the hip kids do these days.

@Ysharros – I believe I have gone on record a couple of times screaming “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!!!’ about the new editor. But if I don’t have an entry about the site ready for next month I will consider hosting the black flag and going after it again.

Oddly, people seem to be clicking on some of my 1 and 5 year ago links this time around. Usually I am the only one who clicks on those, and my traffic doesn’t get counted.